Diary Entries

Post Judging

That is weird. And probably a little bit unfair. Cause My tech demo has won game competition. At least in individual category (came second-third in overall).

Anyway, thanks to everyone who played and created they own games. As always, PyWeek was awesome game jam.

Good things:- Finally I've learned Pygame- I've decided not to use third party physics engine. And It was really fun to implement my own physics (Yeah – brute force implementation!)- Decision to draw concept before starting programming worked as always

Bad things:- Tech demo instead of game- "Fun" part in scoring is the lowest one. And "Fun" part is most important when You talk about games

P.S. In feadback there were some concerns about my game not being connected with the theme. I think it is because of not enough communication from my side. It is related to mythology. Nemesis is balancer of life (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemesis_(mythology)#Rome) and my game is about balancing circles.

Day #5

Almost no progress. I was experimenting with some ideas. One of them circles that grow big starts shooting at you back. In reality it is stupid, because You do not see most of circles. So, from time to time some ball just start flying into Your side.

Now I am trying to implement new approach to make this tech demo a game. When circle grows big, You should reduce it to normal size (Because you are "balancer"). So, I have implemented tracking of big circles with lines:

Name: Balancer of circlesGameplay: there will be two types circles (red, green). They will it each other Osmos (http://www.hemispheregames.com/osmos/) style. You will control triangle. You will need to collect smaller circles and shoot them into bigger ones by splitting them into smaller ones. Winning/Losing? I do not know – I just want to test and implement this game mechanics.

Rant. This time I am trying to make my first pygame game. And it is frustrating. I've already few times caught myself thinking: "Screw this. Let's take pyglet, drop to opengl level and be done with this.".